The latest satellite in the Landsat family of Earth observation spacecraft has collected its “first light” images of our planet.…
Science fiction author Frank Herbert is renowned for the richly-detailed worlds he created. None of his work is more well-known…
Auroral activity on Earth varies over time. As the magnetic poles drift, auroras can appear at different latitudes around the…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
Our conventional models of planet formation may have to be updated, according to a pair of new papers. Accretion is…
The Moon's pitted surface tells a tale of repeated impacts over a long period of time. While Earth's active geology…
We'd love to find another planet like Earth. Not exactly like Earth; that's kind of ridiculous and probably a little…
Since the Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter for nearly five years -- since July 4, 2016 --…
This is our Great Question: How did life begin on Earth? Anyone who says they have the answer is telling…
A gigantic chunk of ice recently broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, and is currently the world’s largest…